More children playing football than rugby, and streets will be empty as national team take on Denmark
One lad was wearing an FC Barcelona shirt and another a Swansea City top. But the vast majority of the young footballers training on the pristine 3G pitch as a salty breeze whipped in from Carmarthen Bay were in the vivid red of their local semi-pro club, Llanelli Town AFC, or that of the Welsh national shirt.
Eight-year-old Noah paused for a chat and named his favourite players as the Welsh team’s poster boys, Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey. “They’re both brilliant,” he said. “It’s great to watch them in the Euros.”
